xiii, 220 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : 24 cm
The autobiography of Levi-Montalcini, who won the Nobel Prize for Medicine in 1986. Born in Torino into a middle-class Jewish family, she experienced the rise of fascism and antisemitism in the 1930s-40s (discussed on pp. 73-105). After the promulgation of the racial laws in 1938, it was impossible for her to pursue research at the Neurological Clinic and she continued her work in private. She survived the war hiding in a small town in Italy and later emigrated to the United States
Translation of: Elogio dell'imperfezione
Includes bibliographical references (pages 215-216) and index
Notes
torn page 116-117, leaf 134-135 inherent skewed text
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